Photonic Kondo model

TL;DR

This paper introduces a photonic analogue of the Kondo model using a three-level emitter coupled to a 1D transmission line, analyzing photon scattering, correlations, and polarization effects.

Contribution

It presents the first study of a photonic Kondo model, exploring its dynamics, correlation functions, and polarization-dependent effects in a quantum optical system.

Findings

Polarization influences the statistical properties of scattered light.

Entanglement between emitter and photons is quantified by purity.

Correlation effects depend on the polarization of the input pulse.

Abstract

Here we introduce and study a photonic analogue of the Kondo model. The model is defined as a far detuned regime of photonic scattering off a three-level emitter in a $\Lambda$-type configuration coupled to a one-dimensional transmission line with linear dispersion. We characterize this system by studying the dynamics of a local system (emitter) driven by a coherent field pulse as well as the first- and second-order correlation functions of the scattered light. Various polarization-dependent correlation effects including entanglement between the emitter and transmitted photons are quantified by the purity of the emitter's state. We also show that statistical properties of the scattered light are very sensitive to the polarization of the incoming coherent pulse.